Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON crestfallen THIS la a word popularly used in common speech to indicate dejection to describe one in a dispirited the term comes to us from the parlance of the barnyard while the crest which gave the word its origin Is correctly the upper part of the head of any bird or animal if Is associated particularly with the comb of the coal who struts animated ly about poultry domain frequenters of the barnyard know that when life goes hard with the cobb his crest which at other times protrudes proudly up into the air la seen to fall dejectedly tah might be said 1 the wagging or drooping tall on the part ot the dog to be his medium of self expression the aptness of the term crest fallen in its figurative use for a person who Is dispirited and aggrieved can hardly be questioned 0 by all |